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Name: Keno
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Subject: RE: RE: RE: Stereotypes suck, Ronnie!
Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Time: 12:00:28 PM
Remote Address: 162.255.157.10
Message ID: 288633
Parent ID: 288631
Thread ID: 288627

RE: RE: RE: Stereotypes suck, Ronnie!

I don't know what you look like or how you dress for work, but if you drive around with clients, then I'll take a guess that you're a businessman who wears a business suit and has short hair? If so, considering such a high number of lawyers are Stones fans and look like this, one might say then that you do look like the normal Stones fan!

People who judge people by the way they look always have gotten to me (even if it's true with most businessmen and how most of them look). Back in the '80s and '90s when I owned my own, somewhat large, and very successful sales firm, I didn't look like your typical sales firm owner. I had long hair and a beard, plus I never wore a suit and tie (but still I did dress up). I would have to hear many times with first time clients things along the lines of 'How do you sign up all of your business clients in this conservative city (Colorado Sps) looking like a longhaired hippie?'. My best salesman, before he worked for me and was with another firm, once asked me a question along those lines too, so I told him if anything, it helped me. Looking this way put others at ease when they saw me (especially non-sales people who were in business), they wanted to work with me because of how I looked - and who I was. So my looks were actually an advantage! He then told me that he used to have long hair in his youth (like most male baby boomers) and only cut off his hair because of his line of work (again, like most male baby boomers), but wished he had the balls to grow it long again, but he would lose his job if he did (this was in the late '80s). So I told him I would hire him and he could look anyway he wanted as long as he didn't dress like a pig, and about a year later he came to work for me, grew a beard, grew his hair long, and sold just as well as he ever sold for that other place while making more money while working for me. I can't tell ya how many times he thanked me in the next 7 years he worked for me for setting him free as a businessman. Yet most of my male sales reps didn't have long hair, only a few did, but their hair lenght didn't matter much to me, it was how they perform their jobs, and everyone of them did a good job, or they would be let go for not doing a good job, just like any other place would do. But I had very little turnover in my workforce, male or female.

So one who was not in the know might say I looked like a typical Stones fan back when I was a businessman, but I didn't, since for the last 30 years your typical male Stones fan has had short hair and isn't a longhair like me. Perhaps one might say I look like your typical early '70s Stones fan, but me and the word "typical" have never fit well together for any part of my life. Heck, I was even different when I was a preteen! But I'll close this out with something I said to my dad way back when I was around 20 years old (he was a business head too, who didn't care for the long hair look): "If some shorthaired, prejudice, 'you must play the game' type of boss doesn't want to hire me to a job that I'm qualified for, simply because my hair is too long, then it's his loss, not mine". When my dad was around 80 or so, on his last visit to Colorado, but on his only visit to my office, out of the blue he said to me: "You were right and I was wrong, you made it big as a businessman with your long hair and all, and I'm proud of you for that". That was probably the best words my dad ever said to me.

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